A detailed physical description of Justine is never provided, but her personality is captured when Elizabeth writes how she can change Victor’s despondency into joy from a simple glance. “Justine, you may remember, was a great favorite of yours;and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humor, one glance from Justine could dissipate it.” (49) Justine was rejected by her mother and taken into the Frankenstein household by the loving Caroline. Justine is rescued from a bad family environment and brought into the home of people who love her. After five years of happiness living with the Frankensteins, Justine returns to her now repentant mother, which is the first occurrence of her role as the object of undeserved blame. “She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.”(50) Madame Moritz alternately asks forgiveness yet still dispenses blame upon Justine, accusing her of being responsible for the deaths of her brothers and sister.
Clarisse still has joy and is not affected by all the government’s propaganda. The readers are able to see her as not
All the events of the novel take place at the hands of the maidens of the village and leading them, Abigail Williams. Rather than being a victim of her society as she wishes to portray it can be seen by the reader that she is rather a vixen manipulating the village. Initially, Arthur Miller introduces the reader to some mysterious things about Abigail when Reverend Parris asks Abigail about her reputation in the community and says “Abigail, is there any other cause than you have told me, for your being discharged from Goody Proctor’s service? I have heard it said, and I tell you as I heard it, that she comes so rarely to the church this year for she will not sit close to something soiled”(12). This in itself raises question to Abigail’s character and if she is indeed as innocent as she portrays.
She, “did not like him as much as a bride should like her bridegroom,” (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm). This alone breaks the rules of the fairy tales we all know because there is a mention of whether the girl likes her suitor or not. In most fairy tales marriage is a prize, not something that has to do with actually liking someone. The girl then goes to her fiancé’s house and hears a bird screeching that she should turn back because she is in a murderer’s house. After exploring the dark home, the girl discovers and old woman.
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the women are intelligent, but submissive—often victims—powerless to protect themselves and "second class citizens." The only exception may be Caroline Frankenstein who dies before the monster is created. Caroline is Victor's mother. She alone shows the ability to stand up to the world. Victor recounts... Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould; and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
Feminist writes Betty Friedan “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.” “...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.” “When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.” “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Naomi Woolf “Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to
Mary Stephan Professor Yan English 102 February 5, 2014 “A Jury of Her Peers” Martha Hale In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” Martha Hale is not the central character, but she is a complex, major character in the story. We learn much about what kind of person she is as she talks with Mrs. Peters about her neighbor and murder suspect, Minnie Foster Wright. She has fond memories of Minnie as a pretty, vibrant, carefree girl. Those memories of Minnie come into focus with the realism of what Minnie has become and what has taken place in her house. We then see Mrs. Hale begin to emerge as a guilt-ridden, sympathetic, and loyal protector of Minnie Wright.
These two well written novels are very similar, two main similarities are both Baby and Anne were never loved properly, and both Baby and Anne’s mothers died. Yet both novels are very different from each other, two main differences are Baby is loved in the foster home she lives in and was better off in it, yet Anne was neglected in her many foster homes, and both Baby and Anne are very smart individuals but Baby gets put into a practical learning class while Anne wins a scholarship. there are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go
http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html The Women at English Literature Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Brontë) The role of Jane Eyre is an excellent example on the view and manners of women in the Victorian Period. She is resigned, but already have personal thoughts and pursues. She is a middle-class worker, with no actual family and no prospects, at the beginning, of improvement. But, because of her personality, she manages to transform her life in many ways. If she were a "kind" child, by the eyes of Mrs. Reed, she would never go to Lockwood school; she were able to grow up in terms of knowledge in the school, because she had the need of being liked by others and was strong enough to improve herself in many ways; she, by herself, took a chance when announcing to be a governess.
I’m going to talk about the position of women in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad but first of all we have to know that this novella was written in 1899 and it talks about the situation in the middle of the imperialism. In the novel the main character, Charlie Marlow, only mention women twice. His opinion about them is that they are separated from the reality, like living in another world, for example, when Marlow went to his aunt’s house she said: ‘‘You forget, dear Charlie, that the labourer is worthy of his hire (Conrad, 2003: 22)”. When she finished, Marlow tell us: “It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be.